As part of a project this semester at CSULB, we are doing a 7 part interview with a fellow student and my interviewee is Lance Morris, an MFA student in the Printmaking program. For our final interview, we went on a walk around the Long Beach Traffic Circle, something Lance does regularly to generate imagery for his artwork. We started by exploring the area, without any real rules, taking pictures and recording our conversations along the way: an image of the traffic circle signage which is different for each entrance, the angles specific to the angles of the streets depending on the direction you are going, an unusually quiet moment of watching the traffic circle from a small patch of grass under the shade of some trees, walking up from the roundabout we found a small neighborhood alley that seemed explore worthy in-between a few houses and an oil driller, an alternate view of the traffic circle, the route we took ended up being more than 3 miles and looking something like this, some treasures I found on along the way...
